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Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in federal fraud case

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft charges. The New York Republican was sentenced in April after admitting last year to deceiving donors and stealing the identities of 11 people — including his own family members — to make donations to his campaign. He reported to Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, in southern New […]

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Stephen A. Smith’s Attack on Jasmine Crockett and the Black Resistance – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent Stephen A. Smith has once again aimed at the very people whose shoulders he stands upon. With all the fervor of a man auditioning for validation from the same establishment that despises his skin, Smith unleashed his latest tirade — not against Donald Trump or Russell Vought or Stephen Miller, the architects of a modern-day apartheid disguised as governance — but against a Black woman who dares to speak truth to […]

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North Carolina’s only swing district — and a Black congressman’s seat — targeted in GOP’s new map

Republican legislators offered a redrawn U.S. House district map for North Carolina on Thursday, seeking to help President Donald Trump retain GOP control of Congress by attempting to thwart the reelection of the Democrat now in the state’s only swing seat. State House and Senate GOP leaders unveiled the proposed boundaries in advance of next week’s General Assembly session, stepping into the national fray over mid-decade redistricting that has Democrats and Republicans battling to secure electoral advantages from coast to coast, including Texas and […]

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Letitia James delivers fiery speech against Trump at rally for Mamdani: ‘You come for me, you gotta come to all of us!’

New York Attorney General Letitia James is undeterred after being indicted by the Trump administration in a fiery speech at a campaign rally for New York City mayoral Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani. “We see powerful voices trying to silence truth and punish dissent, and yes, weaponize justice for political gain,” said James on Monday night, without naming President Donald Trump by name. “We are witnessing the fraying of our democracy, the erosion of our system of government. This, my friends, […]

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Trump photographed with young Republicans who called Black people monkeys, joked about watching people ‘burn’

Despite the White House’s efforts to distance itself from a bombshell investigative report exposing the racist and violent text messages of several young Republican leaders, a new photograph of President Donald Trump with a pair of those Republicans is sure not to put the controversy to bed. As theGrio previously reported, Black leaders, including NAACP President Derrick Johnson and Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman and U.S. Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, slammed the shocking text messages leaked from a group chat among […]

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A Supreme Fight Over Voting Rights – BlackPressUSA

By April Ryan Janai Nelson, President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Head of Counsel for the organization, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for the civil rights stance of leaving Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act untouched. Spencer Overton, a professor at George Washington University, was in the High Court when the arguments took place over Louisiana v Callais. Overton proudly emphasized that “Jaina [Nelson] was basically like Bruce Lee taking on everybody.” Overton, […]

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Meet Janai Nelson, the attorney who just argued her first Supreme Court case to protect Black voting rights

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for a consequential voting rights case that could either solidify or dismantle the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965–which has protected Black voters from racial discrimination in the electoral process for six decades. Janai Nelson, a longtime civil rights attorney, was the woman who argued on behalf of Black voters and what is left of the VRA in Louisiana v. Callais. It was Nelson’s first case before the Supreme […]

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Supreme Court case could grant Trump and Republicans power to trample Black voting rights for one-party rule, advocates warn

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case that could effectively kill the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and allow the Republican Party to redraw voting maps without existing protections from racial discrimination for Black communities across the country. “They can literally create a permanent one-party rule system without the Voting Rights Act in place–and doing it at the expense of Black communities and Black voters,” Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, told theGrio. The […]

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Racism Without Consequence – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent They laughed about gas chambers. They mocked Black people as “monkeys” and “the watermelon people.” They joked about rape, slavery, and “fixing the showers” to suit the “Hitler aesthetic.” These weren’t anonymous extremists on the internet. They were rising Republican leaders — state chairs, vice chairs, campaign strategists, and even staffers with ties to Donald Trump’s administration — plotting their path to power while spewing messages of hate. A new investigation […]

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